The sense of outrage at the injustice of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer is a growing global trend.

How, exactly, then are Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein different from Mubarak and Ben Ali? Is it because what they do is legal? That would be too easy; they make the laws. What Mubarak did was perfectly legal in Egypt; he made the laws. Is it because they wear no crowns? (Source)

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We are witnessing a decentralized global rebellion against Neo-Liberal economic imperialism. While each national uprising has its own internal characteristics, each one, at its core, is about the rising costs of living and lack of financial opportunity and security. Throughout the world the situation is the same: increasing levels of unemployment and poverty, as price inflation on food and basic necessities is soaring.

Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. These global uprising, which have only just begun, are the first wave of the inevitable reaction to the implementation of a centralized worldwide Neo-Feudal economic order. (Source)

The money used to save our zombie banks, and with them the entire mortgage and finance systems, could have been used to save things like water purifying plants, and roads, bridges, sewer systems, and don’t let’s forget jobs, and, ultimately, people. But it wasn’t. (Source)

Meanwhile, in the UK :

Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, said, ‘The price of this financial crisis is being borne by people who absolutely did not cause it.’ . . . “It is not like an ordinary recession, where you lose output and get it back quickly. We may not get the lost output back for very many years, if ever.” (Source)

Mervyn King is surprised anger at bankers is not greater: “Now is the period when the cost is being paid. I’m surprised the real anger hasn’t been greater than it has,” Mr King said, referring the harsh cuts being introduced by the government to slash the massive debts created by the financial crisis. (Source)